Luckily, I didn't stop writing.
The infusion of the response generated through the last blog did a great deal to fan the flames... so to speak.
I normally get about five, maybe eight, total responses from a blog or chapter update. But the last blog generated at last count 138 messages and emails through the system, and a profound number of them were positive. I'd say 99 percent were positive. It took a couple of days just to go through them all. I was going to write back to each individually, but I decided to do something else and just work on the next chapter instead.
I didn't write the blog to get myself blown by the community here, and I was at a moment of weakness that, luckily, passed before I even finished writing the fucking thing. But I posted it anyway, and when I left the computer alone for a few hours and came back with like 75 responses from the blog, I figured I might have hit a nerve.
So I said to myself, "Self, I think I need to reassure a few people I have NOT given up on Mayhem in a Pill."
In fact, I can see the end of this book coming around the corner. Now that's not the end of the story, but it will be the end of this first story in the universe. Not right now or with this next chapter, but I can see this book's end coming this year. I've got some other story ideas I'd like to try, and I can't do them simultaneously as Mayhem. I'm just too damn lazy to do that for free.
I have decided I will separate the two stories into two different books when complete to make sure the reading consumer can follow the storyline they prefer. Like I said in a past blog, I initially decided on the split storyline per chapter idea as a kind of the spur of moment deal. There was no grand scheme. I had the different storylines marked out, of course. I'm not an idiot. I'm dumb; it's different. But the next book will be separate storylines and separate books. No need to switch back and forth in the same book. The idea was with merit. I'm just not yet a good enough writer to try that and trying made me fall flat on my face.
I've also decided I'll go ahead and write it first, then post it. Or at least get several chapters done to keep ahead because I really don't think my ego can take a huge smack of writing and then not get some sort of gratification from what I just wrote. Ahh. Wait for a tick. Maybe that is a problem I can do something about... or not. I dunno.
I just fell into a bad habit of staying with one storyline for too long, so the readers get lost. My bad. I'm kinda new at all of this.
Shit. This was supposed to be a quick blog. Too late. So the reason for the blog. I have just sent the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill to my team of wonderful editors, that painstakingly take my prosal diarrhea and turn it into something resembling a few coherent thoughts that, luckily, try together. It's not an easy thing they do. It takes time. If there weren't a wonderful holiday coming up, I'd predict a new chapter posting early next week. But there is a holiday, and that fucks up everything. By at least a couple of days. So if you can't deal with it, then go watch something on TV to entertain you until then.
So basically, um... thanks for the great notes of encouragement. It got my ass writing, but this weekend is for catching up on the MILF porn I've been neglecting... oh yeah, and for the celebration of some kid long ago.
At times, I can seem like some fool who sits alone in front of my laptop, desperately waiting for someone to write a new review of Mayhem in a Pill.
No, seriously... can someone write another review of Mayhem in a Pill? It would be a nice holiday present for your ever-loving quasi-author.
--Shinerdrinker